Lamiacae Anhängsel

‡ Warmth to the Labiatae ‡

ätherisch Ölen = entflammbare Öle/enthalten meist H/erzeugen Wärme

Heil-/Wurz-/Duftstoffen durch riechen/schmecken wird Wesen der Stoffen wahrgenommen + Sympathie/Antipathie ausgelöst

Bevorzugen Mittelmeerraum. Helle + warme Standort. Bergregion. Nie Tropen

Arten, die im Wald wachsen riechen unangenehm.

Öl = im Blatt enthalten/Geschmack ist intensiver wenn Pflanze trocken/Früchten sind klein und trocken

Enthalten r. drehende Camphor.

‡ wässrig Mitte dry

Lam-a. Orig. Menthy./Meli. (= Balm)

‡ Ich-bewusst/selbstverantwortlich/stärkt Wirkung des Ichs Wärmeprozess als Sonneimpuls ‡

Thema: Acknowledgement [1. not being acknowledged (at work/at home/in the family/with friends/with parents/orphan), 2. full of emotions + can’t express them/holding-on to and pent-up of feelings/put feelings into words. Ambitious + NEED of acknowledgement].

Aufregung, Leidenschaft; AKTIVE Reaktion mit Fleiß, Heiterkeit, Schreck + ängstliche Sorge, Zittern, schwitzen, überwältigt sein; PASSIV

Die sedativen Eigenschaften als Phytotherapeutika entsprechen in Homöopathie Rubriken ruhelos/reizbar/schlaflos/gereizte Schleimhäute nahe den Körperöffnungen (Nase/Rektum mit Hämorrhoiden/Blase/Nierensteine);

Sexual DESIRE/self pleasure/suppressed desire/aversion to coition/lewd and obscene

Desire for exercise/(physical) activity/for mental work

Agreeable moods

Sleepless (from nervousness and vivacity)

Increased activity + dullness - desire with its suppression

Excitement (gained or lost)/can be adventurous, fearful/anxious, vivid, pleasant, tremulous, exhilaration, rush of ideas, industrious, loquacity, vivacity, singing/mirth, unpleasant surprises, irritability, shock type pain, thrusting type pain (sudden, transient and fleeting) + warmth, perspiration,

trembling, need to move, feeling overwhelmed, passionate. This experience of excitement can also present in dreams and during waking times.

The dullness can be lack of excitability/of reaction/numb/calm etc./dull sluggish mind

[Jan Scholten]

Spaß haben an Gesprächen mit Freunden und deren Anerkennung.

Freunde und Vergnügungen sind sehr wichtig.

Ruhelosigkeit. „Schnelles Leben“.

Immer fleißig, immer in Bewegung. Der Kontakt geht nicht so in die Tiefe. Überwältigt

durch Gefühle (mit Zittern und Schweiß). Reizbarkeit.

Besserung:

Fröhlichkeit.

Ängste:

Unangenehme Überraschungen. Langeweile.

Neuralgie. Wandernde Schmerzen. Zittern. Nervosität. Schweiß. Schlaflosigkeit. Morbus. Basedow. Lungen. Asthma. Bronchitis. Schleimhäute von Nase, Darm,

Niere, Blase, Uterus.

General symptoms:

Excitement (either gained or lost) = red line symptom

Sexual desire extreme + self pleasure + suppressed desire + aversion to coition

Dull sluggish mind

Lewdness and obscene

Desire for activity, exercise, physical activity/for mental work

Agreeable moods

Sleepless (from nervousness and vivacity)

Trembling

There is increased activity + dullness - desire (with suppression)

The excitement can be adventurous, fearful, anxious, vivid, pleasant, tremulous, exhilaration, rush of ideas, industrious, loquacity, vivacity, singing, mirth, unpleasant surprises, irritability, shock type pain, thrusting type pain + warmth, perspiration, trembling, the need to move, feeling overwhelmed, passionate. Excitement can be present in dreams as well as during waking times.

The dullness can be a lack of excitability, lack of reaction, numbness, calmness etc.

Lamiaceae, or Lamiales = mint family is a family of flowering plants. (= Labiatae).

Representatives of this family: Coll. Glech. Hedeo. Lami-a. Lycpr-v. Meli. Menth-p. Oci-c. Oci-s. Orig. Satur-h. Rosm. Scut. Thymol.. Thymu-s. Teucr. Teucr-sc.

[Dutch Masi-group and Jan Scholten]

The Lamiaceae belong to a large family and are found growing over the entire planet. For their habitat, they prefer the open fields. Because of their lovely smell and delicious taste many species of this family are used in the kitchen: basil, oregano, thyme, and rosemary as smell- and taste-enhancers in the various Mediterranean dishes. The relief-bringing quality of thyme, as mucous dissolvent in a common cold, is well known to most of us.

In Anthroposophical medicine, the warming qualities of the Lamiaceae are praised and because of these qualities the ethereal oils are used in-/externally (ethereal oil of Rosemary used as additional therapy in diabetes). According to the Anthroposophists the Lamiaceae have an incarnating effect on the psyche because of their warming quality.

Chemistry

The Lamiaceae contain aromatic carbohydrates in the form of phenols, which have an antiseptic as well as an aromatic action. With the aid of the Terpenes, which the plants contain, they protect themselves against insects, fungi, and bacteria. Other constituents are: Phos. Va Mg Ca K Li and Moly. The themes of these elements are well described by Jan Scholten in his books: ‘Homeopathy and the Minerals’ and ’Homeopathy and the Elements’.

The patients are full of emotions but cannot express them adequately; they find it hard to put their feelings into words. They are ambitious and have a great need of acknowledgement. When this need is distorted and is a main issue in the case history, it becomes a theme. This theme, together with the holding-on to and bottling-up of feelings, brings the Lamiaceae into the picture. The lack of acknowledgement is felt in all kinds of settings: at work, at home, in the family, and with friends, but most of all, the lack is felt in relation to the father, who is often very authoritarian.

Are not recognized for their own qualities by their parents or partner. The lack of acknowledgement is very strong in the prototype of the orphan: no parents and thus no recognition of his biological descent. All members of this family probably need acknowledgement but each in their own specific way. The following presumptions need to be confirmed in daily practice:

Teucrium wants to be acknowledged in his work.

Oreganum tries to find acknowledgment/gratification in the sexual field.

Oci. the field of acknowledgment lies in the religious sector.

Coll. the tender point is the pregnancy. She does not recognize her own pregnancy!!

Meli. feels powerless when not acknowledged and becomes angry.

Oci-s. afraid of accidents (dream of accidents) and try to find acknowledgement in managing or joining a first- aid-group.

We can see that these patients look for gratification of their deep need for acknowledgement from those around them.

[Massimo Mangialavori] Ambition

To get recognition the Lamiaceae throw themselves with much ambition into their work (Kaliums) and try to make a good impression (Calciums). They do their best but that is never good enough: Menth-p.

Oreganum, Thyme, and Scuttelaria.

Lamiaceae: ambition has the connotation of: “It is my duty to do my best.” Like iron-group: Kalium, Vanadium, Ferrum, Manganum, Cuprum and Chromium which, like Phosporus, are constituents of the Lamiaceae.

Bottling-up

Despite being talkative, Lamiaceae express themselves insufficiently and do not show their vulnerability or express their true feelings. The cause of this situation can often be found in their youth: parents who do not show their own feelings, who do not tell the truth, etc.

Zur Seite geschoben und sich selbst überlassen

Schlaf gut + Bewegung und Sprechen.

Aufbrausende, explosive Reaktionen. Fehlende Gruppenzugehörigkeit. Unruhig, springt herum, rollt die Augen. Sie stellt ihre Mutter auf die Probe und ist gespannt, ob sie erwischt wird. Sie beobachtet ihre Mutter aufmerksam

um zu sehen, ob sie genügend Aufmerksamkeit  und Zuwendung bekommt und wird vorwurfsvoll und wütend, wenn sie sich missverstanden fühlt. Man sieht ihr an, was sie denkt, erkennt die Anspannung in ihrem Körper,

wenn sie sich auf dem Stuhl aufrichtet und ihre Stimme erhebt. Sie genießt es, wenn sie Recht hat. Sie hat große Augen und versucht Augenkontakt herzustellen. Andererseits kann sie auch sehr introvertiert sein, aber ihre Augen wirken dann umso lebendiger.

Repertorium:

Throat, speech:

Loquacity: Oci. Teucr. Thymol.

Indisposed to talk: Lycps. Orig.

Quiet disposition: Scut.

Aphasia: Oci-c.

Desires salt: Lycps. Teucr. (Nat-m.)

Thyroid problems: in Dutch opkroppen means bottling up, holding on; crop = goiter

Goiter: Lam. Lycps. Scut.

Pain throat: Menth. Oci-s. Glech.

Spasms:

Restrain, retain (Cuprum)

Head, pain, cramping: Teucr.

Head, temples, cramping: Rosm.

Stomach, pain, cramping: Coll. Teucr.

Abdomen, pain, cramping: Coll. Lycps. Teucr.

Congestion:

Nose obstruction: Menthol. Teucr.

Hemorrhoids: Coll. Lam. Lycps.

Abdomen, distention: Coll. Lam.

Constipation: Coll. Hedeo. Lam. Lycps.

Hemorrhage:

Hemorrhage: Coll. Lycps. Hedeo.,

Metrorrhagia: Coll. Lycps. Oci-s. Rosm.

Chest, hemorrhage: Coll. Lam. Lycps

Anus, hemorrhage: Coll. Glech. lycps.

Sedative, tranquillizing and sleep-inducer:

Restless: Coll. Lam. Menth-pu. Menthol. Oci-c. Orig. Scut. Thymol.

Irritable: Lycps. Oci-c. Orig. Teucr. Thymol.

Sleepless: Lam. Lycps Teucr.

Antiseptic:

Inflammation: Lycps. Teucr.

Sinusitis: Menth. Teucr.

Inflammation kidney: Coll. Lycps. Oci-c.

Bladder, morbid urging: Hedeo. Lycps. Oci-c. Scut.

Pain:

sudden, transient and fleeting in many

Frei nach: JJ Kleber

Labiatae = Lippenblütler gehören zur Ordnung der Lamiales = Lippenblütlerartige;

Viele Lamiaceae erfreuen durch den lieblichen Geruch, und dienen oft als belebende Küchenkräuter; medizinisch ist Hauptwirkung auf Schleimhäute der Atemwege und des GIT; chemisch enthalten sie antiseptisch wirkende etherische Öle (Terpene/Phenole).

Scholten: sucht Anerkennung Bestätigung in Außenwelt (Arbeit/Freundschaft/Beziehung) als Reaktion auf Mangel an Anerkennung in Jugend (autoritärer Vater); stürz sich deshalb gewissenhaft in

die Arbeit; fühlt sich nie genug geschätzt/anerkannt/gelobt in ihren Fähigkeiten und hat geringes Selbstwertgefühl: Voll von Emotionen nimmt eventuell schnell Kontakte auf (Phos.), sind aber verschlossen im Inneren (Scrophulariaceae) als Ausdruck der inneren Einsamkeit wegen mangelnder Anerkennung in der Jugend; sie haben Probleme ihre Gedanken und tiefen Gefühle (Verletzlichkeit) auszudrücken (bei Autoritäten) und erscheinen teils nichts sagend geschwätzig (loquacious Oci-c./Teucr./Thymol; schweigsam Lycps./Orig.); sie können trotzdem meist gut kommunizieren und andere Verstehen, um Anerkennung zu erhalten, haben aber nie gelernt sich selbst den anderen mitzuteilen und tiefere Bindungen aufzunehmen; das verschlossene Selbst verhindert

echten Kontakt (Phos: zugewandt und hat trotzdem Problem mit Kommunikation + Lernen). Diese innere Verschlossenheit führt zu Krämpfen (Magen/Bauch/Kopf/ZNS).

Sankaran: sucht Er-/Aufregung, Sex + Partie, Vergnügungen; Erregung von Mangel an Erregbarkeit # freudige Erregung (excitement: nerval/mental/sexuell); diese AKTIVITÄT treibt an und wird direkt

auf andere Organe übertragen (zittern/schwitzen/nervös) und Gegenteil ist INAKTIVITÄT.

DD: Phos-ähnlich: Bedürfnis nach Kommunikation, Erregbarkeit des ZNS, Blutungsneigung/-bereitschaft; Bemühung um Anerkennung + innere Verschlossenheit;

Scrophulariaceae (hier Focus auf Ansehen der Familie/Gruppe).

DD Eisenserie „it is my duty to do the best“.

Sedativen Eigenschaften als Phytotherapeutika entspricht in den homöopathischen Rubriken: Erregung ruhelos/reizbar/schlaflos;

Like sweet marjoram, Teucrium marum and other labiates acting on the sexual sphere, wild marjoram also effects the nasal region which is related to it: against inflammation, chronic coryza,

Schleimhäute: Reizung der Schleimhäute nahe den Körperöffnungen (Nase/Rektum mit Hämorrhoiden/Blase/Nierensteine);

Will nicht reden: Lycps./Oci-c./Orig./Scut.

Halsweh: Menth-p./Oci-s.;

Verstopfte Nase: Menthol./Teucr;

Bluthusten + andere Blutungen vor allem Schleimhäute: Coll. Glech. Lam. Lycps.);

Magen-/Bauchschmerz: Coll./Lycps./Teucr.;

Hämorrhoiden: Coll./Lam./Lycps.;

Verstopfung: Coll./Hedeo./Lam./Lycps.;

Schleimhäute: Coll./Glech./Lam./Lycps.;

Schleimhautentzündungen: Lycps./Teucr.

Sinusitis: Menthol./Teucr.

Niere + Blase: Coll./Lycps./Oci-c./Scut.

Schildrüse: Lam./Lycps./Scut.

Sankaran: Aufregung, Leidenschaft: lebhaft, schnell erregt, zittrig, gesprächig, auch schreckhaft

aktive Reaktion: fleißig, > Bewegung; fröhlich/heiter, Schreck + ängstliche Sorge, Zittern, schwitzen, überwältigt sein

passiv: Reaktionsverlust auf äußere Einflüsse, benommen

Kompensation: innere Ruhe

‡ Folgendes hat anthroposofische Einschlüße ‡

Frei nach: Wilhelm Pelikan

The Labiatae Plants of warmth.

Every single one of the Labiatae is a medicinal plant. If the medicinal plant generally strikes us as a one-sided development of the family type, then the Labiatae as a family must be regarded as a

particularly one-sided variation of archetypal plant nature.

This one-sidedness is due to the extraordinary extent to which this plant family permits the cosmic forces of warmth to influence it. Warmth takes hold of the Labiatae and organizes their development

to a far greater degree than any other plant family. Every plant family, do have their share of the action of warmth, but none to the extent as the Labiatae. The centre of the impulses for such warmth

activity lies, as with all plants, outside the plant body, in the cosmos, in the sun. Only man, the being who has an ego, bears such an impulse-centre as part of his being, within himself; he is a being with

his own warmth. A particular reaction between man and the Labiatae arises through the warmth in the make-up of those plants.

This warmth-element finds physical expression in the production of special, fiery, aromatic substances, etheric oils. These are substances which may be said to want to become warmth themselves.

In them, warmth has taken substance, as far as this is possible, towards its own essential nature. These substances are extremely volatile, with rapid expansion from the fluid to the gaseous state, easily inflammable, and burning with a bright flame. The vapour is invisible and colourless, it allows light to pass through it, but at the same time robs it of radiant heat, letting the light emerge bright but cool.

The etheric oils have no relation to the watery element, nor to the earth. They do not dissolve in water, nor do they dissolve minerals or salts. They do dissolve substances which also owe their existence

to the action of warmth: waxes, resins, fats. The etheric oils contain a big amount of H;

Etheric oil of rosemary is the plant substance containing the most H; and H is the substance most closely related to warmth in the whole earth sphere.

Cosmic warmth-activity is differentiated into different temperature zones over the earth; parallel to this differentiation the various species of Labiatae develop from the main type. This type unfolds its possibilities parallel to those differentiations in warmth activity as follows:

The Labiatae prefer the Mediterranean, avoid the tropical jungle, and in fact the tropics altogether, but also the cold regions. They love wide, open fields, dry (stony) slopes, wild scrub land, sunny

hill tops. Here they develop their most characteristic and noble species. Lesser varieties are found in damp meadows, near brooks, in the shade of woods; these species have rough, coarse, sweat-like

scents. One can smell how the element of warmth does not gain ascendancy as it does in the purer species, but must fight against the obstructive forces of damp and darkness. In the tropics, the cosmic sphere, and particularly cosmic warmth, is drawn too strongly into the earthly sphere; this is not the place for the Labiatae. In the colder regions, the cosmic forces do not get hold of the earth strongly

enough, and here, too, the Labiatae are absent. In the mountain ranges of the Mediterranean, with their short rainy periods in spring, the long, dry, bright summers, where cosmic forces continue to rule

for a long time, the type develops to its greatest perfection. Here grow the noblest, the wonderfully aromatic species of lavender, rosemary, thyme, sage and others.

With regard to warmth activity, therefore, the Labiatae prefer the middle one of the climatic zones, the rhythmic middle of the earth body; and out of this warmth activity they develop their etheric oils, preferably in their own rhythmic region, in the leaf region.

Having visualized the distribution of the Labiatae over the climatic zones of the earth, we must next picture the distribution of their life cycles within the cycles of the seasons. Flowering in summer.

The root process of the labiate plant comes to grips with the mineral element in the soil. It does not like the half- mineral, half-living consistency of swamp soil, nor does it take hold on a living substrate

as the parasite does. But nevertheless this root process does not really make the mineral nature of the earth part of itself. That which we might term "turned-up earth," namely a tree, develops only as

a rare exception among the Labiatae. For them, it is enough to have enlivened the mineral; and the plant then immediately strives towards the opposite pole. A watery congestion of growth, like that

seen in the succulent plants, is equally foreign to the Labiatae. A simple pair of coltyledons is followed by the other leaves of the shoot; no trouble is taken to form or arrange them with loving care;

simple, undivided and decussate, further leaves follow. In the "normal" plant, say a Ranunculus, the single pair of cotyledons is followed by the rising spiral of alternate leaves, showing a rich variety

of forms, and only in the end again contracted into a simple leaf, the little sepal in the circle of the calyx: similar to the early form and leading to the higher beginning of floral development. This whole

range of leaf development is limited to very simple forms in the labiate plant - evidence of a strong, rapid striving towards the flowering process. The leaves, the stems, already begin to give off

fragrance; in this, too, they anticipate the flowering process, are already warmed through and inflamed like flowers, whilst a "normal" plant first mercurially weaves the airy light element into those of

water and earth. To this "mercurial" process belonging to the leaf, a "sulphuric" and "phosphoric" are added in the Labiatae. In the circumstances it will be no surprise that the form of the calyx already resembles that of the corolla. If a sage blossom is plucked from its calyx, it will be seen that the latter has the same form as the flower. The flowers themselves appear in such abundance, in such a great variety of peculiar forms and strange conformations, that they obviously are a key to the essential nature of the labiate plants. The axis of the flower changes from the vertical direction of the shoot to

the horizontal, and with this the labiate flower moves away from plant nature, towards animal nature. For the hori/.ontal is the direction of formation and movement of the animal. Upper lips arch up,

lower lips are pushed outwards; throats and gullets open up, forms to match the insect linked with these flowers. If blossoms like that are filled with wax, the impression resembles the head of a bee

with its proboscis extended. Stamens and stigma become organs moved by a touch. The insect flying to the flower is received, enveloped, its movement even elicits a movement in response, like an

echoed movement. The juices of the plant also surge towards the animal, in the formation of nectar; this is all the more abundant the more often the flower is visited. If a bee visits thyme, sage or other

labiates, this is an encounter between warmth-animal and warmth-plant. The animal maintains a temperature level similar to that of the human blood in its hive. It gathers the sugary warmth-spiced

nectar to transform it into honey, raising it to a higher sphere of life, that of the animal, permeated with warmth.

The fruits arising from such a flowering process are dry little nuts containing seeds with a high fat or oil content. These, too, are very much saturated with warmth. (Volatile and fatty oils are related

through their connection with warmth, but at the same time also polar opposites. In volatile oils, substance separates out into the warmth element, a centrifugal process. In fatty oils, substance absorbs

the warmth element, a centripetal process. In volatile oils, material substance strives towards the sphere of warmth; in fatty oils, warmth moves into the substance. Volatility is the essence of the one; envelopment, concentration, that of the other.) Juicy fruits produced by the watery element are lacking.

Having looked at the labiate life as a whole, let us return once more to the formation of the leaves. It strikes one that the meagre amount of play permitted in the shaping out of the labiate leaf - from

the broad leaf of melissa or woundwort to the needle-like leaf of rosemary or thyme - faithfully reflects the extent to which cosmic warmth actually takes hold of the species. And this is also reflected

in the taste of the leaf, from the mildly aromatic one of melissa to the fiery, peppery taste of summer savory and thyme with their narrow leaves, and finally the burning, caustic flavour of the small leaf of Teucrium marum.

Therapeutic Activity of the Labiatae:

As flowering is so strong in this family, being pushed right down into the leaf region, one may expect stimulating and warming activity, firing the metabolism, anywhere between metabolism and rhythmic system. And the sphere of action of the Labiatae does indeed cover an area from digestion to respiration. The processes of warmth and the intensive sugar process (the formation of nectar) establish a

relation to the member of man's being which is active in processes of warmth, basing itself on the sugar process in the blood: the ego. The activity of the ego, in the metabolism, in the formation of the

blood and in the respiratory processes, is quite generally influenced by medicinal plants from among the Labiatae. These plants do not intensively concern themselves with the mineral, earth element, and because of this their medicinal action also does not noticeably extend to the system of nerves and senses. Nor do powerful astral impulses press in to any abnormal extent anywhere in the Labiatae,

breaking through the region of the formative processes, the etheric, right into the physical sphere (this is characteristic of the formation of alkaloids in poisonous plants). As a result the Labiatae also do not have any particularly immediate effect on man's astrality, such as narcotic, anaesthestic actions, dimming consciousness. The accent is on the activity of the ego organization in the metabolic sphere, with an inclination towards the rhythmic system. Depending on the specific form developed by the individual species of this family, this or that organic sphere will be specifically addressed: either the blood, or the gastrointestinal region, the heart, the lung, the uterus. Over and above this, the Labiatae will assist quite generally to control any unrestrained astral activity, and place the astral body under the rule of the

ego. Weakness of the ego in many different forms can be treated with these plants, right down to that organic failure of the ego organization resulting in diabetes mellitus.

In the form of herbs and spices, too - this family includes a great many herbs - the Labiatae stimulate the ego to conscious participation in the processes of digestion, by making it aware of taste, of

savour. The scents of the family all have that stimulating, awakening, harsh and fiery note which strengthens the ego. There is nothing sweet, cloying, indulgent or benumbing about them.

As the Labiatae get their key-note from the element of warmth, let us first of all consider the most typical species, those where the warmth-principle is fully dominant. Headed by rosemary.

They are followed by those where the element of warmth has to assert itself by fighting against opposing formative principles, or where it is muted.

Collinsonia canadensis = Griesswurzel/= Steinwurzel/= Horse Balm/= Rich Weed/= Heal-all/= Canada Snake-root;

Sucht Anerkennung während der Schwangerschaft (< im Wochenbett wegen eingeschränkter Aktivität) und in ihrer Arbeit/kann Aufgabe der Arbeit (Rente/arbeitslos) nicht ertragen; fühlt sich

schnell eingesperrt, hasst Beschränkungen (einschränkende Regeln)/braucht Platz, eine große Welt zum erforschen

Chronisch gereizte Schleimhäute (Nasen-Kattarrh/Gastritis/Rektum); Obstipation + harter/klumpiger Stuhl (<< schwanger); Hämorrhoiden, Fissur (Splitterempfindung), jucken/Durchfall.

<< Schwangerschaft + Wochenbett; Beschwerden nach Hämorrhoiden-Operation.

Scholten: Stadium 13 (Scheitert durch Festhalten an veralteten Einstellungen);

Sankaran: Malaria-Miasma

Glech. = ground ivy/= alehoof/= gill/= Gundelrebe/= Ground-ivy/= Erdefeu

Passt sich an, nimmt alles hin (kein Rebellieren) nur um dazuzugehören; trotzdem zeitweise das Gefühl, wie ein Waise, nicht voll zur Familie/Gruppe zu gehören; Angst verlassen zu werden

Scholten: Stadium 5 (alternierende Zustände: dazugehören durch Anpassung <-> doch nicht ganz dazugehören)

Iin Traumwelt; Angst zu versagen/zurückgewiesen/nicht anerkannt zu werden; veränderlich/chaotisch

Flowers as one of the first spring plants/first of all the labiates in dry and sunny places where no shade falls (hedges/walls/roadsides/under fruit trees).

It is the first plant of spring to transform the cosmic warmth given to the earth into warmth filled plant nature. The leaves are still rounded, with indentations round the margins, corresponding to the formative forces of the watery element, but they are permeated with a mild, aromatic warmth. The foliage withstands the cold of winter. After flowering creeps all over the ground; it belongs to the earth. The flower whorls which turn towards the light are drawn up into the leaf axils. Leaf and flower impulses intermingle. The plant belongs to central and northern Europe and neighbouring regions of Asia as far as Siberia. The taste, aromatic, earthy, and harshly bitter, reveals, the presence of etheric soil, tannin and bitters.

Used to stimulate metabolism quite generally (in spring); weakness of the bladder, congestion of liver and spleen, weakness of the digestive tract, insufficient blood formation; furthermore for diseases of the respiratory organs with a tubercular basis, bronchial asthma, scrofula, calculi and jaundice, application being both internal and external; all this is very similar to the actions of the other labiates we have been considering, especially those mentioned last. There is therefore no need for further details.

Galeopsis segetum (G. ochroleuca), downy hemp-nettle/damp areas in western Europe/grows on siliceous sandy rubble (crumbled, broken primitive rock), a soil which is completely mineral and permeated with air and sufficient moisture. Spiky, and with elongated hemp-like leaves, even its hairy, bristly appearance shows that the siliceous element is not only the soil in which it takes root (it flees from chalk), but also plays a part internally in giving the plant its form. The "upper" stories of the leaf nodes bear pseudo-whorls of very striking large pale yellow flowers shaped like animal heads (gale-opsis = weasel's face). The ash has a high silica content (18%). Like the siliceous Teucrium, Galeopsis is a good remedy for diseases of the lung due to weakness of the light metabolism in the organism; it is one of the components of the "Silica Teas" so successful in the treatment of certain forms of phthisis. Its warming properties are gentle, the plant is only weakly aromatic.

Hedeo. = squaw mint/= American pennyroyal in gravel pits and similar siliceous sites in the central regions of North America. Sells like mint and resembles the common hoarhound in its growth.

Main action - emmenagogic, abortive, against dysmenorrhoea and leukorrhoea - is basically the promotion of warmth and blood circulation, but also in establishing order through- out the genetial sphere - particularly the female sexual organs, these being much more rhythmical in nature than the male. There is also stimulation of liver, gall and splenic activity.

Hysso-o. The shoot is slender but tall, closely covered with narrow lancet leaves. It bears aloft the blue or reddish-violet blossoms held together in a pseudo-spicule, with their stamens spilling out.

S. Europe/dry regions of western Asia found on rocky, stony hills and mountains. The scent of the crushed leaves is warming, camphor-like, and a bit animal-like, as of a badger. In addition to its warming properties it has those due to the camphor it contains - relaxing and antispasmodic; the rhythmic region of the plant abundantly developed, and correspondingly the medicinal action is aimed more at the rhythmic system, with chronic bronchial catarrh, asthma, but also the regulation of perspiration, as the indications.

The oil will also ameliorate severe pain from wounds.

Lam-a. = weiße Taubnessel/= white Nettle Lam/= Dead Nettle

Sankaran: Sykosis

TrauRIG; Verlassenheitsgefühl; ängstlich umhergetrieben; Verwirrt, wiederkehrender Gedankenandrang, Angst/Gefühl verrückt zu werden

Beschwerden kommen + gehen langsam.

Tiefsitzende Kopfschmerz; Hämorrhoiden, Blasenbeschwerden

This plant may be found almost anywhere in the cooler parts of Europe, very much like a weed, and shows only traces of the warmth character of the family. Having a strong upward growing trend in the

leaf and stem region, does resemble the stinging nettle but the floral element combines with the leaf rhythm, node following node, with pseudo-whorls of many large white, wide-throated flowers.

Sweet-scented, slimy-sweet, slightly harsh dried flowers dissolving mucus/relieving inflammation, main action unfolding in the kidney/female genital organs (leukorrhoea/hardening of the uterus/lack of tone

in the uterus/premature menses and strangury, retention of urine in old men, inflammatory processes involving the urinary passages. The dead-nettle is like a faint echo of the fiery labiate motif, in a cool, damp, earthy medium.

Leon-c. grows on waste land, in village lanes, dry pastures, along fences and hedges, also intermingles leaf and flower formation, drawing the inflorescence down into the region of leafy rhythm; the pseudo-whorls of pinkish labiate flowers sit in the leaf axils of the tall pile of nodes. Not only is the leaf rhythm more strongly emphasized in this plant, but the shape of the leaf itself is shaped out in more

detail than in most of the Labiatae; it is divided and arranged in triangular lappets. The plant is only faintly aromatic, with a musty and slightly repellent scent, and the taste is very bitter. Corresponding to the nature thus expressed, the medicinal action has largely shifted from the metabolic to the rhythmic action. Amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, sterility and climacteric symptoms do also benefit, but the accent lies on the help this plant gives with palpitations, anxiety, dyspnoea, weak cardiac function with intermittent pulse, angina pectoris; oppression of the heart from the metabolism, Roemheld's syndrome.

= Leon-c.- ähnlich;

Lycopus europaeus = Wolfstrapp/= Ufer-Wolfstrapp;

Lycp-vg. = virginischer Wolfstrapp/= Wolfsfuß/= Bugle Weed/= Gipsyweed

= Leon-c.- ähnlich: less metabolic, more the rhythmic system.

Fühlt sich total ausgeschlossen, ausgestoßen, wenn sie nicht hart genug arbeiten (können) + genug Reichtum haben, um anerkannt zu werden; daher harte ruhelose Arbeiter; Angst Waise, Flüchtling,

Häftling zu werden; Geld wegen Anerkennung wichtig, guter Umgang mit Geld;

Mitleidig, prophetische Träume (DD Phos); fühlen sich schnell schuldig

Tumultartige Herztätigkeit; Herzschmerzen, Herzgeräusche bei Klappenfehlern.

Dyspnoe, Atembeklemmung bei Niederlegen

Hämorrhoidalbeschwerden unterdrückt.

< Anstrengung;

Hyperthyreose (mit Exophthalmus); Arrhythmie, Hämorrhoiden; Hüfterkrankungen; Varikose.

Scholten: Stadium 17 (loszulassen von Aufgabe, von Vergangenheit);

Sankaran: Typhus-Miasma

Shows an overdeveloped leaf rhythm in a numerous succession of leaf nodes, with circlets of tiny white flowers drawn into the axils. The inflorescence is dissolved up and distributed over this rhythmic leaf region. It is completely subjected to it. Like those of the last species, the leaves are deeply incised and feathery. Near slowly flowing waters in Atlantic coastal regions of N.America. Must come to terms

with water. The power of etheric oils is subdued, but formation of tannin/bitter substances increased.

Good cardiac stimulant; it has been successfully prescribed for weakness of the heart after overexertion, with anxiety, dilatation of the heart, and tachycardia in conjunction with Basedow's disease. Acts on the blood process itself; it has been used to treat icterus, haemorrhoidal bleeding, and pulmonary haemorrhages in diseases of the lung.

Marr-v. more than Melissa, the shoot with its rhythmical sequence of leaves, node following node, is the chief organ; from the leaf axils of each node arise the almost spherical small white pseudo-whorls with their tiny flowers. The plant is found throughout Europe, right down into Asia; it loves rubbish heaps, dry, bare but warm places. The egg shaped leaves are contracted into wrinkles, only slightly aromatic; but very bitter; they also contain tannin.

Even more so than Melissa, the medicinal action is directed at the rhythmic system. It is not so much a plant of warmth and more one of rhythm. Marrubium does also help in catarrhal gastritis and enteritis, stimulate hepatic function, promote menstruation, but what is much more important is its action in mucous congestion of the bronchi, chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, senile asthma; it stimulates the circulatory system and regulates the beating of the heart. It also reduces excessive salivation, especially in cases of mercury poisoning.

Meli. = Zitronenmelisse/= Zitronelle/= Herzkraut/= Sweet Balm/= Bee Balm;

Paracelsus: Elixier des Lebens;

Strenge Perfektionist kompensiert mit overdoing in Arbeit + Sozialkontakt ihr tiefes Misstrauen/Ärger/Kummer; Erscheinungsbild = Phos-ähnlich;

Emotional tief verschlossen gegenüber Autoritäten innerlich ablehnend misstrauischen Persönlichkeit;

Ärger in dessen Leben, 1. explodiert fast, aber kann sich gerade noch kontrollieren, 2. Müde + hilflos, machtlos; 3. kann letztendlich tyrannisch werden mit viel Hass.

Ursachen: sexuell abuse; Verlust einer großen Liebe

Scholten 12: (overdoing, Wiederholungen)

Herpes, Blutungen, Menopause, Mensesprobleme, Vaginismus, Nackenbeschwerden; Krämpfe

This graceful perennial herb, nettle-like in its growth, expresses its essential nature particularly in the foliage. Instead of the needle-like, contracted leaves of the "fiery labiates," we now have broad,

well-formed leaves, pair following pair in rhythmic sequence with no particular change in form as they pile up. The fiery scent of the labiates we have been considering so far is now moderated

into a mild, refreshing lemon scent. Pseudo-whorls of a few white flowers rich in nectar arise in the leaf axils of the upper nodes. This is another important bee-plant. Corresponding to its external form

this plant loves a milder warmth, more moisture, and even some shade (Mediterranean/Orient). Acts warming/refreshing/enlivening, less at metabolic/

more at rhythmic processes, as one would expect from its rhythmical, leafy nature. It promotes the menses and conception, subdues states of sexual excitation, and also has stimulating and calming effects on the digestive tract, antispasmodic and carminative, ameliorating nausea and vomiting; but on the whole its action extends more in the direction of the rhythmic system than that of the labiates discussed so far. Palpitations, cardiac neurosis, even pectanginous states are within its sphere. Sleeplessness, hysteria, melancholia,

attacks of faintness often accompany those conditions and will also respond to Melissa. Carmelite Water has a distillation of balm as the chief ingredient.

Mentha piperita = Pfefferminze;

Sucht impulsiv und wendig nach Kontakten; sind naiv in Beziehungen; sind frische, ambitionierte Workoholics

Scholten: Stadium 1 (ohne Überlegung anfangen)

Begierig zu Arbeiten, schnell im Erledigen, aber kühl + verschlossen (Lyc mehr aufgeblasen); verlieren schnell Beherrschung; haben viel oberflächliche Kontakte

Empfindungen: inner Kälteempfindungen; Menthol (Kältegefühl in Nase) HNO/Pulmo: chronische Sinusitis; trockener Husten ausgelöst durch eingeatmete Luft durch Kehlkopf, < lautes Reden/kalte Luft/Erschütterung (gut für Sänger in D30); << rauchige Luft; Schmerz in Luftröhre.

More temperate warmth of our latitudes, with much light, and damp peaty soil. The broad lanceolate leaves follow each other closely along a stem up to 2 feet high, and continue all the way up to

the pointed pseudo-spicule of violet summer flowers. In this plant the warmth-principle of the Labiatae fights with the damp and cool element, and this makes it stimulating and warming, relieving congestion

in the digestive system, spasms and flatulence, strengthening menses and potency, relaxing uterine spasms. Has also the vitalizing and calming properties, refreshing, relieving palpitations and cardiac anxiety. And this plant of warmth and water particularly stimulates the organ in which fluid organization and warmth organization are interacting with each other, the liver.

Mentha pulegium = pennyroyal/= run-by-the-ground/= Flöhkraut/= Pudding Grass

WET places; even salt marshes. Even more so than in the case of peppermint, the warmth-related labiate nature fights against the water principle foreign to it. Pennyroyal does not lack antispasmodic activity, stimulating digestion and filling this region of the body with warmth; its effect on the liver is even stronger than that of Mentha piperita. The emmenagogic effect becomes so powerful that it causes abortion; the circulation of blood is increased for the urinary organs, the colon and the genital organs - even to the extent of causing haemorrhage; diuresis is promoted. Diseases of the lung, asthma and whooping cough have also been among the indications for pennyroyal.

Mentholum = chemisch reines Menthol;

Kältegefühl in Nase; Katarrh + Tubenkatarrh; Stechen in Brust; Asthma

< kalte Luft, << rauchige Luft/frühes Austehen; > Liegen im Bett;

Laryngitis; Pharyngitis

Sankaran: akutes Miasma

Lav. = Lavendel/= Lavender

Fühlt sich genötigt der Umwelt etwas übertrieben und exaltiert darzustellen; empfindlich/verletzlich und will dies verbergen

Vergesslich bis desorientiert; reizbar bei unterdrücktem Ärger; Angst in engen Räumen. Erysipel, Ohnmachten, Palpitationen, geruchsempfindlich

Scholten: Stadium 13 = Scheitern durch Festhalten an veralteten Einstellungen

Gentle, pure restfulness. Foliage scanty; almost contracted into needles, but still soft are the leaves. The shoot branches near the ground like a candelabra, with leaf spirals tending to contract into

rosettes. From these the flower spicules rise, thin and upright. In them, the leaf element has been overcome. Quite different from rosemary, the influorescence with its pure, sweet "lavender blue" is

one of the chief organs in the life of this plant. It unfolds in summer, with the plant striving strongly into this revelation of flowers, leaving the less perfect organs, the herb, behind and below.

Loves dry, warm slopes in the western Mediterranean, liking warmth and light. Lavender also stimulates the ego-organization, but more in the direction of calming, controlling the astral body. In this sense lavender "strengthens the nerves“/calms/brings sleep/relaxes spasm/counteracts faintness, revivifies. It makes the blood rushing to the head, stimulates metabolic activity; in paralysis it helps the ego organization to relax its tight grip on the paralysed limb. Added to baths, lavender: in sciatica/gout/rheumatic disease (partly due to the fact that the metabolism is not under the ego's control and therefore has become subject to the irregular katabolic activity of the astral body).

Oci-c. = Basilicum album/= Kampherbasilicum/= Alfavaca/= hoary Basil;

NierenkoLIK in Intensität stärker werdend bis zum galligen Erbrechen; Harngrieß, Nierensteine, Ziegelmehlurin.

Verlangt: Kalk/Erde; < feuchtes Wetter

Pathologie: Niere, Blase, Harnröhre

Ocimum basilicum = Basilicum/= Basil/= Basilienkraut/= Königskraut/= Königsbisam/= sweet Basil/= Tulsi

with broad, fleshy leaves stressing very much the herbal aspect, comes from a warmer but also damper climate than the other labiates discused here, from Hindustan.

To the warming note of marjoram is added a fiery, clove-like nuance. The leaf shoots end in slim, spiculate inflorescences consisting of pseudo-whorls one piled on top of the other; flowers white and

full of nectar. Use to stimulate warmth to the digestive organs, for its action of cleansing the uterus, promoting birth and lactation, an aphrodisiac effect. Used in catarrhal disorders and inflammations

of the mucosa in the urogenital tract. Once again a calming effect is present, and the plant relieves the pain of spasms.

Sucht Anerkennung auf religiösem Gebiet und ist in hoffnungslosem Kampf um soziale Anerkennung; mitfühlend soziale Natur, dient den anderen, um selbst anerkannt zu werden;

Probleme sich zu ändern + anzupassen wegen fundmental konservativ traditioneller Einstellungen; hohe Achtung vor Werten, hohe Moralvorstellungen, aufopferungsvoll, religiös aber trotzdem bodenständig, eine Art königlicher Ausstrahlung

Reizung der Schleimhäute mit verstopfter Nase, Rachen Kehlkopf roh + brennend; Cystitis

Scholten: Stadium 2 o. 11 (unsichere Beginn oder Kontrolle halten über das Erreichte)

Oci-s. = indisches Basilikum/= sacred Basil, heiliges Basilikum, Königsbasilikum, engl.: Holy Basil, sanskr.: Tulsi, Tulasi.

Sucht Anerkennung durch Helfen in Notsituationen; oft starke kräftige ausdauernde Leute, die sich anstrengen im Job und in ihren Beziehungen, um Anerkennung in ihrer Gruppe zu erlangen;

Verlangt zu viel von sich bis zum Zusammenbruch (dann burn out)

Folgen von Kränkung, enttäuschter Liebe; delusion missachtet, verletzt zu werden; Fehler sprechend/buchstabierend.

Scholten: Stadium 8;

Sankaran: Lepra-Miasma

[N.C. Das]

Tulashi common throughout India, has the property of driving away the mosquitoes. It has been found by experiments that if the Juice of Tulashi leaves is rubbed over the body the mosquitoes never come near it. Regarding this property of Tulashi, the following opinion of Sir George Birdwood will be of great interest: when the Victoria garden and Albert Museum were established in Bombay, the men employed on these works were at first so pestered by mosquito and suffered so much from malarial fever that on the recommendation of the Hindu manager the whole boundary of the garden was planted with holy Basil (Tulashi) and any other Basil at hand on which the plague of mosquitoes was at once abated and fever altogether disappeared from among the residents of the gardens and temporary resident masons. The opinion of the Imperial Malarial Conference is also in favour of Tulashi being a good medicine for malaria. In various books of Ayurveda it is recommended for malarial fevers. Besides this, Tulashi may be used with great advantage in a variety of diseases. The crushed leaves of Tulashi mixed with lime juice is used as a paste in ringworm, itches and cutaneous diseases of the skin. It stiffens the skin, removes the black spots of the face and increases its beauty. The leaf juice poured into the ear is a first rate remedy for ear - ache.

Used in snake - bite and scorpion sting. Leaf juice is a very good remedy for cough, cold and bronchitis. A cup of decoction of the leaves with a little boiled cows milk and sugar is an excellent substitute for tea and may be taken to remove the fatigue and to avoid cold and cough, Fresh Juice mixed with a little powder of Cardamom checks all kinds of vomiting. The powdered seeds are used with old Jaggery in disorders of genito - urinary system. They thicken the semen and increase its potency. The patient should necessarily live a life of abstinence, simplicity and purity. The root of Tulashi taken with betel leaves is a good remedy for checking involuntary emission of the semen. Thus we see how useful this plant is, and it is no wonder that it is held in high esteem and sanctity and is worshipped by every Hindu in India.

Orig-v. = Gemeiner Dost/= wild Marjoram/= Wohlgemut,

= a more robust variation of marjoram. Grows wild in Europe right down into Asia, crossing the Alps. Taller than marjoram, and the inflorescence with its reddish flowers rises more strongly

above the leaf sphere. Poor, mountainous positions, or warm places at the edge of forests are favoured by the plant, whilst cultured ground repels it. The wild marjoram, too, has a warming, stimulating effect on the sexual sphere (uterine disorders: dys-/amenorrhoea); the restraining, mastering forces of the ego are brought to bear again (erotomania, nymphomania, onanism). After what has been said so far it will not surprise us that colds and catarrhs affecting the respiratory organs and weakness of the metabolic organism are also helped by it. Wild marjoram has diuretic properties, relieves congestion in the hepatic and portal regions.

Orig. = süßer Majoran/= sweet Marjoram/= Wurstkraut;

Sucht Anerkennung in der Sexualität [unterdrückte sexuelle Impulse (gesellschaftlicher Konvention)] dessen Spannung sich in Gedanken, Masturbation oder schneller Bewegung lösen will

Scholten: Fälle von Bauchtanz/Kind von Bauchtänzerin/Bauchtanz als gesellschaftlich anerkanntes Sex-Äquivalent.

Gedanken an Sex (gebesserte Stimmung danach); Sex-Ideen mit trauriger, unzufriedener bis suizidaler Stimmung, Leukorrhoe mit Reizung Schamgegend; intensive Bewegung wie Rennen, Tanzen; Folgen enttäuschte Liebe, sex. Missbrauch; sexuelle Erregung mehr weiblich mit Schwellung, Jucken Brustwarzen, Schwellung der Brust; laszive Träume, Coitusverlangen; Fröhlichkeit mit Gedanken an Heirat;

Sexuelle Übererregung vor allem bei frühreif/Kind (Mädchen 2 - 5 Jahre).

Sankaran: Syphilis-Miasma

Coming from the warm south of Europe, though marjoram does not like the rocky mountain slopes so much, but rather warm, light golden soils and the cultivating hand of man. The germinating

seed needs shade; it develops into a graceful, beautifully formed plant, even its lower parts permeated with the mild aroma, striving upwards irresistibly, with gently rounded leaves drawn

close to the stem, and soon it is crowned by the flower spicules. Each spicule looks like a small bee-hive, with numerous small white blossoms half concealed in it when they come out in high summer.

It requires the long period of southern sunshine to ripen seeds capable of germination; they are full of fatty oil. The mild scent of the leaves gives a beneficent, warming sensation - like the dark warmth of

the baker's oven. The etheric oil, produced through cosmic warmth, but in more gentle fashion than in the Labiatae we have discussed so far, also contains camphorous substances. From the same cosmic forces derives the fatty oil surrounding the seed to shut off the influence of earthly forces, so that the seed may remain fully open for the cosmic formative powers which impress upon it the germ of the formative law of future growth. R.S.: seed as a medicinal agent (to regulate the menstrual cycle). Power to fill the metabolism (sex organs) with warmth. It strengthens the stomach and intestines, cures

colics and diarrhoea, promotes conception and menstruation. Its sphere of action includes antispasmodic properties (asthma/vertigo/paralysis). In combination with Melissa, it is an excellent remedy for inflammations and weakness of the child-bearing organs.

As the seeds develop, part of the plant is first of all separated off from the whole, subjected to partly paralyzed processes of growth and decreasing vitality, and finally tied off completely from the whole.

This part would have to deteriorate into chaos had it not been permeated with new formative forces after pollination. These - and is a finding of spiritual scientific research - stream into it from the cosmic periphery. We have already described how the higher aspects of being of the plant are linked with that cosmic periphery. The specific constitution of the seed protein of the species concerned serves as a "filter" to separate out from the abundance of cosmic influences those relevant to the plant. Because of pollination, the seed protein becomes chaotic at first, and this removes it from the sphere of

influence of earthly forces, forces radiating outwards from a physical centre which find their most perfect expression in dead, mineral existence. The seed protein now comes under the influence of the universal forces which radiate inwards. The chaos is penetrated by the cosmos, and can again become a microcosmos, something that is alive and developing. The process of oil formation always linked with seed development serves to isolate the seed from the forces of the earth. It disappears during germination, when the plant once again looks for, and makes contact with, the forces of the earth.

Orthosiphon stamineus = the Indian kidney tea, grows in Indo-China/Archipelagus/Australia. The leafy stems are similar to those of peppermint, ending in a pseudo-spicule built up from

whorls. The pale blue flowers reach out a long way, with long thin tubes growing horizontally and long stamens pouring from the flower in the same direction. Tea contains etheric oils, tannins, a glycoside

and a high proportion of potassium salt; it acts against mineralizing processes in the metabolic sphere, against uric acid diathesis. Kidney and bladder stones, inflammatory rheum/gout/arteriosclerosis and diseases of the liver and gall bladder are treated with it. But above all it supports the kidney process, and is considered a good remedy for disorders of the kidney and bladder, the early stages of contracted kidney, chronic inflammation of the kidney, the formation of gravel and stones in the kidney, haematuria and albuminuria. This labiate carries warmth processes with a solvent action, which like the ego organization hold the balance between inflammation and hardening, into the kidney region, the organ of Venus. It is interesting that this medicinal plant has its habitat in the region inhabited by a race which physically shows a particularly strongly developed kidney process, so that one might call it the "Venus race.

Rosm. = Rosmarin/= Rosemary/= Salvia rosmarinus/= Kranzenkraut;

Tapfer zwingen andauernden Herausforderungen anzunehmen, um Anerkennung zu erreichen; aber zeigen nicht ihr inneres, verbergen etwas, wollen nicht ihr wahres Selbst zeigen, um die Anerkennung nicht zu verlieren; Herausforderung wäre aus dem System/Gruppenzwang herauszutreten und wagen zu sich selbst zu stehen

Konzentration + Gedächtnis schlecht, Delusion nicht anerkannt zu sein, stiller Kummer; sind eisig kalt

Menses: Hämorrhagien, Abort nach Blutung; Ovarcysten

Weibliche Organen; Leber- Gallenblase; Atemprobleme; Glatze

Scholten: Stadium 6 o. 8

Looks like a small, spiky pine tree; the dark green leaves are contracted into needles, and the shape of the shrub, which may be up to man's height, is compact, forceful and composed;

only during the flowering time, briefly as it comes and goes, something more volatile passes over it: the delicate violet floral haze of the small pseudo-spicules on their brief shoots. But that is just a short moment in spring. The sunshine of the long, hot, dry Mediterranean summer finds the plant composed within itself, almost rigid. The aroma is fiery, but severe, strong, strengthening consciousness,

rousing. The scent might well be called fiery-salty, and at the same time there is something of the solemnity of incense about it. The coastal mountain regions of the Mediterranean is

"rosemary country“. The almost impenetrable thorny scrub, the maquis, covering those stony slopes is its favourite landscape (close to the sea). The rosemary bushes are cut every 3 years and the oil

distilled from them varies from place to place/from year to year; determined by climate/soil; that is, the way in which warmth-cosmos and earth combine in the plants concerned.

The flowers give excellent honey.

The ancients used it more for their rites than as a medicinal herb. Its medicinal virtues were discovered in the Middle Ages; at that time it became very closely linked with man in traditions (christenings/weddings/burials). This was the era when the egoic force struggled to emerge in the evolution of man; the human being was becoming an individual, the forces of individual responsibility

wakening in the soul as it was permeated with ego, a new member of the soul was born, the "spiritual soul“. Strangely enough, it was then that Labiatae took on particular meaning for human beings (rites/home/cooking).

R.S. strengthens the ego and its effects on the other members of man's being. This explains its action on fainting attacks, states of exhaustion due to intellectual overstrain; also the action on the blood

organ, as this is the physical foundation on which the ego can unfold its activity. The blood process is activated. Chlorosis, inadequate menstruation, circulatory disorders are favourably influenced.

Parallel to blood activity, the proper permeation with warmth is also promoted. Once the organs are given a better blood supply and warmth, ego organization and astral body can come in more

effectively. This plant promotes digestion, "firing the metabolism," and acts as a sudorific. Where the higher members of being have a cramped hold on muscle tissue this relaxes; it also is of service in the treatment of epilepsy. A nervous system worn down by excessive intellectual demands is permeated more strongly by anabolic processes (diabetes mellitus: R.S.: A weakened ego organization unable to control the process of sugar formation/ego organization specifically active in the sugar metabolism, and the special need for sugar in human beings is indicative of this.) The ego, being too weak, withdraws to the periphery and develops a strong intellectualism through the brain; one of its main spheres of action, on digestion, production of blood and respiration, it leaves to the astral body.

The way in which the ego works in that main sphere of action has a counter process in the plant world, where forces from outside the earth induce the plant-bearing earth to produce etheric oils.

Using such etheric oils in baths is one method of treating weakness of the ego.

By developing "spiritual sense organs" capable of doing so, it is possible to perceive the interplay of astrality and egoity around the plant (which consists of a physical and an etheric body).

R.S. described how the astral aspect of the plant flows/circles/whorls around the flower. It strives to combine with the purest element, the "soul of the sun's ray“. The ray of the sun is permeated

with the same force as that contained in our astral body. Physical light is the external body of astral light coming from the sun, and the element which glows around the body of the plant is intimately

bound up with the astral radiated by the sun. "You have a wish, a will, an emotion, because you have an astral body - here wish, will, emotion is what swirls around the flower up there. What does it

want then, as it sworls around the flower? It wants to absorb, to take up the soul of the sun's ray, and with the soul the purest part, the ego, and it is a continuation of the sun's ray that passes through

the plant to the centre of the earth. In this activity of the spiritual content of the sun's ray, passing through the plant down to the centre of the earth, the activity of the plant's ego finds expression.

And so spirit, plant and sun act together“.

Chemical analysis: Rosm. contains etheric oil (in which alpha-pinene, i-camphene, cineol, d- and 1-camphor and d- and 1-borneol have been found)/resins/bitters/tannins. That is how they "come apart in one's hand" - but where is the spiritual bond between them; i.e., the essential nature of rosemary? It is difficult to find the word rosemary again by just

looking at the letters A E O Y M R S. It is equally difficult to see anything of the essential nature of the plant in the various substances which are the end-product of analysis. But this essential nature,

with its own peculiar features, will become apparent again if the etheric oils, tannins, bitters, etc., are seen as the outcome of activity on the part of the members of the plant's being.

R.S. 1. the cosmic plant-ego finds expression in the production of etheric oils;

2. the cosmic astrality of the plant manifests among other things in the formation of tannins; these are, so to speak, the organ which conveys the astral impulses to the etheric body of the plant.

If the astrality of the plant acts too intensively into the physical sphere, breaking through the region of etheric formative forces, plant poisons, alkaloids, develop;

3. the development of forces in the etheric body which attract the astral finds expression in the production of bitter substances.

The medicinal action of etheric oils, and particularly that of rosemary, therefore consists in stimulation of the ego. Tannins make the astral body inclined to combine with the etheric body. Bitter

substances stimulate the etheric body to take the astral body into itself.

Something fiery and forceful emanates from the rosemary shrub.

Salv. = Gartensalbei/= Königssalbei/= Shop-sage

Starkes Schwitzen bei schlechter Kreislauf-Zirkulation; Kitzelhusten; As the preceding examples have shown, the characteristic of the labiate process is that the "warmth ether" enters deeply into the

region of the "life ether“. This interaction finds expression in aromatic processes involving volatilization (action of the warmth ether), and in the compact form of the plant, always gathered in closely

around the stem element (action of the life ether). Sage is as "particularly true" labiate, and Salv. is one of the most impressive representatives of the genus, so that it deserves more detailed treatment.

"Sage country" are the bare chalk rocks of the Dalmatian coast, the barren slopes of the Balkans, Greece and Spain. On such slopes, sage is like incense on an altar of nature; its scent is severe/solemn, similar to rosemary, but rougher, closer to the earth. It is a real summer plant, with sturdy, woody stems, strong, thick, wrinkled leaves, strong ribs and veins, not contracted into needles, but into narrow lancets. From the leafy half-shrub rises the imposing inflorescence, determinedly separating itself from the leaf region; the flowers are large and aromatic, full of nectar and particularly shaped to fit the body of a bee. And so in the current of warmth-filled development the sage plant rises up quickly to an upper region, there revealing itself in the exhalation of scent, the production of etheric oils and a rich flowering; but in contradistinction to this it also takes up into itself solidifying, formative elements, also apparent in physical form, in the abundant development of tannins as well as resins, and considerable deposits of salts (calcium oxalates). The dried leaves contain 2% of etheric oil, 5 - 6% resins, and 5% tannin.

The action of etheric oils born in warmth on the ego organization which works in warmth processes has now been sufficiently described. Resins are like etheric oils condensed to the solid state, formed through warmth activities, but mummified. They stimulate ego activity in the system of nerves and senses. Tannins, arising from astral impulses (this is particularly obvious from the fact that much tannin is formed around animal-plant galls), act on the astral body. R.S. drew particular attention to the importance of the tannin from sage in the treatment of asthma. According to him, the "inner appetite" of the organism is lacking in the case of asthma. "The whole organism is something of a subtle organ of taste. Only later this tasting function is localized ... in the area of the palate and tongue .... In subconscious spheres, then, the human being savours and produces the inner experience of appetite throughout the whole of the organism .... There is such a thing as lack of appetite on the part of the organism. (the asthmatic) has no desire whatever to take the ingested food substances particularly in the direction of those parts which enter into the whole of the circulation. Now it is a good thing to know how one can

get at an organism ... which has no appetite, which means that the proper connection between etheric organism and astral organism has been broken, for that is what it means to lose the appetite. In a case like this it is always good to give the organism the right dose of the tannic acid obtainable from sage leaves, for instance . . . or from oak leaves. This is a substance of particular importance to the astral body, stimulating it to extend its activity to the etheric body“. It is interesting in this context that a species of sage growing in Crete, Salvia pomifera, frequently produces cherry- sized galls at the end of its shoots, very sweet and edible when young. (In the formation of galls, etheric plant nature and astral animal nature combine particularly closely.)

To the healing process of warmth which is a key-note of the labiate species we have so far discussed, sage adds the tannic processes to give firmness. The resulting formative processes tauten tissues,

give form to bloated tissue. An overflowing fluid organism is held in check, warmed through; glandular activity in particular is placed under the rule of ego impulses.

Excessive lactation, abnormal perspiration are therefore held in check by sage. It has anti- inflammatory and also tissue-forming, wound-healing properties if used in compresses, washes, gargles, etc.,

for inflammations of the throat, etc. Like the other labiates we have been discussing, sage also stimulates egoic activity in digestion, metabolism and blood formation, of course.

Salv-sc. = Muskatellersalbei/= Scharlachkraut/= Clary Sage;

Scut. = Sumpfhelmkraut/= Helmkraut/= Blue Skullcap/= Mad(-dog) weed/= Blue Pimpernel,

Nicht sicher/nervliche Schwäche als Folgen von zu viel Studieren, von Aufregung, von Überforderung/-Überarbeitung;

Verwirrt, kann sich nicht aufs Lernen konzentrieren; nervöse Ängste o. nervöse Aufregung; sind frustriert um ihre Gesundheit; kann aber Beschwerden nicht klar umschreiben, kommt immer wieder auf das zurück, was sie schon geschildert haben (keine klares Bild was eigentlich ist, was sie eigentlich aussagen will); nervös hysterische Patienten, auf die Scut. = Valer-ähnlich (Angst/umwölktes Denken/evtl. Schwindel-Probleme nach grippalen Infekten o. Sinusitis, die mit Antibiotika behandelt wurde).

Brust: Pochen, Stechen, Rhythmusstörung (ähnlich Lycps + mehr nervöser Natur).

Herzneurose; chronic fatigue; chronische Sinusitis; Folgen von grippalen Infekten

Thymu-v. = (echter) Thymian/= Thyme/= Gartenthymian/= Hühnerkohl,

Contracted like heather/a minute cypress, grows on stony ground in the full sun of Spain/Italy/Dalmatia/Greece. It requires little from the soil, needs hardly any water, but all the more of the

cosmic light and warmth. The small fleshy leaves, almost contracted into needles, strive upwards strongly, together with the shoot; every summer the inflorescence, in clusters the colour of purple heather, pushes its way above them. Bees love those tiny blossoms. The herb has an aromatic, fiery flavour; the scent is strong, peppery, warming, slightly musty.

When the warmth organization - and with it the ego - does not fully permeate the stomach and lungs, when there is a tendency to develop colds, or any organic region holds "too much water, and too little warmth,” thyme can be helpful. Children with rickets, an exudative diathesis will benefit from thyme baths, and the plant is a remedy for persistent bronchial catarrh and even whooping cough. It is also useful in gastritis, gastric spasms, colics - if the organic region lacks warmth. With an overactive thyroid on the other hand, the metabolic stimulation given by this fiery herb may go too far; must be used with caution.

Thymu-s. A "softened" thyme. It, too, loves dry, sunny meadows in the mountains, though also the dampness of dew, and rises up to the snow line.

Habitat south and north of the Alps. Its scent is part of the aromatic fragrance of summery alpine meadows. Bees find rich pasture in the purplish flowers rising from a foliage that clings to the ground

(small leaves: linear or curved). Wild thyme was regarded as "lady's herb" (Our Lady's bedstraw), dedicated first to Freya and later to Mary.Thought to promote menses, but also confer chastity

(bringing the sexual functions into a healthy rhythm, ruled by the ego). Use similar to that of "true" thyme: for whooping cough, cough; to "strengthen the nerves,” for spasmolysis

(gastric spasms, asthma, epilepsy), and added to the bath for weak and scrofulous children.

Teucr. The leaves of this graceful shrub are very small and greatly contracted. The shoots strive upwards and end in the inflamed crimson of the flower spikes. Fiery and caustic, stinging, is the

scent of the leaves if they are rubbed; burning and as hot as the hottest pepper is their taste. This plant, with the accent much on the flowery, volatile element, has an action similar to that of thyme, but more directed at metabolism. It fires the liver process, promotes the flow of bile, fights the tendency to stone formation. It also has emmenagogic properties, and the plant has been used to treat paralysis of the limbs; further for inflammations of the upper respiratory tract and proliferations in the nasal region.

Satureia-h. along the eastern Mediterranean and on the shores of the Black Sea. It holds a place between rosemary and sage, and shall be mentioned briefly. Its growth is woody and

bristly, needing a lot of warmth, with the leaves once again contracted almost into needles. The plant loves rocky slopes, covered with boulders. It is not surprising to find that it stimulates the

appetite, has antispasmodic and sudorific actions, fills the digestive organs with warmth, but also has emmenagogic and slightly aphrodisiac properties. Contains etheric oils and also some tannin.

Teucr. = Katzengamander/= Moschuskraut/= Katzenkraut/= Amberkraut

Polypen (Nase/Darm/Gebärmutter)

Chronische Katarrh mit Atrophie/stinkende Krusten; Ozäna/Geruchsverlust

Dauerjucken am Anus (Oxyuriasis)

> Bewegung; < Berührung/sitzen/Bücken;

Sankaran: Ringworm-Tiena-Miasma

Teucr-s. = Salbei-Gamander/= Wood Sage/= wilder Gamander/= Wald Gamander

In damp, cool, shady element, the labiate type, so closely bound up with warmth, meets sphere foreign to itself;

Forced to come to grips with elements inimical to it. Musty, sweaty scents, harsh, bitter taste indicate this struggle. Such a plant is the wood sage; it grows on siliceous soil on the edge of forests/

in clearings, on the upper edges of granite ravines in the forest, and in cuttings in western Europe. From a ground shoot branching off into runners rises a tall, narrow, leafy shoot, with egg-shaped, lanceolate, hairy, pale green leaves, ending at the top in a slim spike of pale yellow labiate flowers; these grow all round the stem, but all face in one direction, towards the strongest light. Etiolated, rank that is how the whole thing strikes one; pale and extended because of lack of light. In addition to the various characteristics already described for the Labiatae, there is now the silica process in Teucrium scorodonia. This makes the struggle for light easier for the plant. Silicic acid promotes the light metabolism, as experimental studies by L. Kolisko have demonstrated.

R.S. recommended the plant for supportive therapy in Tb. Plants rich in silicic acid have altogether become known for their activity in this direction. Tb. is a disease due to lack of light. The organism's faculty for the "development of inner light" is weakened. Successes have also been reported in the treatment of Tb. of the testicles/bones. It has already been mentioned for several species that the labiate will benefit the sweats of phthisic patients, something which also applies to this plant.

Sankaran: Miasma: Tuberkulin

Teucrium scordium = Lauchgamander/= water Germander/= Lachenknoblauch;

Lives in muddy soil. Contains an etheric oil with a musty, garlic-like scent (sulphur process), tannins, bitter substances. Acts at the fluid organism: it is diuretic and sudorific, against mucous obstruction in the digestive system, glandular inflammations (orchitis); chronic bronchitis, Lung (Tb./empyema), also ozaena, purulent sinusitis of the maxillary sinuses. The labiate action, with the sulphur component added to it, is carried up into the rhythmic system. This plant, which draws the flowering element down into the rhythmic sphere of leaf and stem, is helped by the sulphur process to assert in the watery, earthy, cool sphere its own nature as a plant determined by warmth. These "combative processes" give it its medicinal action.

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